CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will host
a reception and book signing in honor of the recent publication of "Tsars
and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography" by Serhii Plokhy, associate
director, Peter Jacyk Center; director, Church Studies Program, CIUS, University
of Alberta; and visiting professor of history at Harvard University. The
reception will take place at 5-7 p.m. in the institute's Seminar Room,
1583 Massachusetts Ave. RSVP to the institute, (617) 495-4053; directions
may be found by logging on to the HURI website, www.huri.harvard.edu.

Friday, May 2

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and Literary Club and the Mayana Gallery
present "Poklin Mariyi" (In Mary's Honor), an evening featuring
art historian Stefania Hnatenko, who will speak on "Iconography in
Ukraine: 14th-18th Centuries." The program will also feature author
Liubov Dmytryshyn-Chasto in a rendition of her own poetry, as well as actors
Lidia Krushelnytska, Larysa Kukrytska and Volodymyr Lysniak, who will read
poems by Antonych, Tychyna, Vinhranovsky and Vira Vovk. Recordings of music
by Ihor Sonevytsky will also be included in the program. Donation: $7,
students, $5. The Gallery presents "Bohorodytsia v Ikonakh,"
an exhibit of Ukrainian icons representing the Mother of God (reproductions).
The evening will be held at the Mayana Gallery, 136 Second Ave., fourth
floor, at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call (212) 260-4490 or log on
to http://www.brama.com/mayana.

Saturday, May 3

PHILADELPHIA: An AIDS Awareness Weekend, with special guest Miss Universe,
will be held at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar
Road, Jenkintown, Pa. As part of the program there will be an open forum/seminar
on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. Co-hosted by the Pennsylvania Branch
of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America, the seminar will
be held at 9a.m.- noon, and is open to the public. The welcoming of Miss
Universe commences at 3 p.m., followed by a photo op and the unveiling
of the "Rushnyk Nadiyi," or Ritual Cloth of Hope. The opening
of a photography exhibit by Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-Lonchyna of Chicago on
the theme of Ukrainian orphans opens at 6 p.m., to be followed by a cocktail
reception. A benefit gala banquet and ball in honor of Miss Universe, with
music by The Fourth Wave, starts at 7 p.m. Donation: $50; dance only, $20.

EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Ukrainian American Professionals Businesspersons
Association of New York and New Jersey presents a literary evening with
award-winning author Irene Zabytko, who will read from her new book, "When
Luba Leaves Home," a work that relates the classic story of how the
children of America's melting pot grow up strong enough to carry their
double identities. Ms. Zabytko, a first-generation Ukrainian American who
grew up in the Ukrainian Village section of Chicago, is the recpient of
the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award; her work has been heard on National Republic
Radio's "The Sound of Writing." The reading will be held at the
Ramada Hotel, 130 Route 10 W., at 7 p.m. Contribution: $8, members; $10,
non-members.

TORONTO: The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University
of Toronto is pleased to announce the Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture,
which will be delivered by Prof. Vitaly Chernetsky, Columbia University,
on the topic "Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization: How
Contemporary Authors Respond to the Changing World." The lecture will
take place at University College, Room 140, at 6:30 p.m., to be followed
by a reception and launch of the newest CIUS Press publication, "Culture,
Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945)."
A reception and book launch will be held at the Croft Chapter House, University
College, Room 183. Admission to the lecture, reception and book launch
is free. For more information call CIUS, (416) 978-6934.

Sunday, May 4

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and Literary Club, the Mayana Gallery and
Ukrainian National Women's League of America Branch 125 invite the public
to "Enchanted World," an exhibit featuring watercolors, graphics,
book illustrations and decorative arts by artist Erica Slutska. The opening
reception begins at 2 p.m. The exhibit will run through May 18. The Mayana
Gallery is located at 136 Second Ave. (between Eighth and Ninth streets),
fourth floor. Gallery hours: Friday, 6-8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m.
For more information call (212) 260-4490 or (212) 777-8144; visit the websites
www.brama.com/mayana or www.unwla.org; or send e-mail to ukrartlitclub@aol.com.

Monday, May 5

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will host
the Bohdan Krawciw Memorial Symposium titled "Traditionalism and Experimentation:
Aspects of Ukrainian Literature in the 1920s" - Session I: "Charting
the Course for New Literature," 2-4 p.m.; Session II: "1920s
Modernism and Its Refractions," 4-6 p.m. Featured speakers include
Prof. George G. Grabowicz, Harvard University; Prof. Myroslav Shkandrij,
University of Manitoba; Halyna Hryn, HURI research fellow; Volodymyr Dibrova,
editor and wrtier-in-residence, HURI; as well as Alexander Kratochvil and
Maria Rewakowicz, currently Shklar Fellows at HURI. The symposium will
be held in Room 191 of Pound Hall, adjacent to the institute. HURI is located
at 1583 Massachusetts Ave. For information and directions access the HURI
website, www.huri.harvard.edu,
or call the institute, (617) 495-4053.

Friday, May 9

COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies
at Ohio State University and the Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio
present the third and final talk in their spring lecture series on Ukrainian
folklore and literature: "Ukrainian Literature in the Age of Globalization,"
by Vitaly Chernetsky, assistant professor of Slavic languages at Columbia
University. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on the OSU campus, 122 Oxley
Hall, 1712 Neil Ave. Admission is free. For more information call Arcadia
Melnyk, (614) 246-4600.

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